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Exxon Mobil's top executive has met with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan after Baghdad made the US major an offer in an apparent bid to keep it operating in the south of the country, industry sources said.
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Iraq's president formally asked Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki on Thursday to form a new government, giving him 30 days to choose a cabinet.
The request from President Jalal Talabani came two weeks after political leaders reached an agr

Iraqi politicians appeared to have broken an eight-month political impasse on Wednesday when the Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance agreed to take part in a new government headed by incumbent Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki.
Maliki inched closer

Iraqi politicians appeared to have broken an eight-month political impasse on Wednesday when the Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance agreed to take part in a new government headed by incumbent Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki.
Maliki inched closer

Iraq's parliament will meet on Monday to elect a speaker, the chamber said on Wednesday, a move that could break an eight-month political deadlock and see Nuri Al-Maliki reappointed as prime minister.
Iraq has been without a permanent gove

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki acknowledged he was "part of the problem" holding up the formation of a new Iraq government but challenged allies and opponents to find a better candidate for the top job.
Five months after an election I

Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki called for a nationwide recount of votes from Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election, warning the country could return to violence if the demand was not met.
The call came after new results from the electoral c

Preliminary results from Iraq's national election began to trickle in on Thursday, showing Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki ahead in the country's largely Shi'ite south.
Preliminary results from the electo

Turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election on Sunday was 62 percent, lower than a previous national vote in December 2005 but higher than in last year's provincial ballot, the electoral commission said.
Preliminary results wer